The Student Senate has planned additional advertising and a word-of-mouth campaign to try and fill five off-campus senate seats that remain vacant two months after elections last semester.

The five off-campus seats constitute nearly all of the off-campus slots on the senate, which Joe Robbins, speaker of the senate, said could raise concerns about under-representation.

However, Student Body President Hugh O’Hara said he is not “terribly concerned” about off-campus student representation since the at-large district is composed of both on- and off-campus students.

In addition, he noted that all of the executive Student Government members live off campus, though the executives, except for speaker of the senate, do not vote on senate legislation.

Senate is composed of 12 at-large representatives, 12 on-campus representatives, and six off-campus representatives.

Robbins said it is tougher to attract off-campus students to the senate than on-campus students, so he said senate members are going to do more advertising in academic buildings and the Union as opposed to the residence halls where off-campus students are not as likely to see them.

O’Hara said the senate will have to depend on flyers and word of mouth.

“It’s just a matter of catching people and getting the word out,” he said.

Both Robbins and O’Hara hope the problem will be solved with this second round of applications.

Last week, the senate received 12 applications for 11 open positions that were left vacant after last semester’s elections, and from those applications the senate filled five on-campus, one off-campus and one at-large position.

For a brief period of time, two off-campus positions were filled, but after last Wednesday’s senate meeting one off-campus senate member was removed for missing three meetings, a stipulation in the Student Senate bylaws.

The deadline for the off-campus applications is Friday at 3 p.m., Robbins said. The applications can be picked up and turned in at the Student Activities Center in Room 201 of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“We’ll have to wait and see,” O’Hara said, regarding whether the positions will get filled.